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§Memory-Mapped Files, Rust-style
This crate contains everything you need to work with Memory-Mapped files. Or you can just roll your own and build
upon the Mmf trait defined here. This module exports some utilities and ease of use items and you’re entirely
free to use or not use them. By default, the implementations and namespaces are enabled. If you do not wish to do
so, look at the implementation for MemoryMappedFile and check the use statements to see what you need to do to
get things working.
The internal implementation is built entirely around using fixedstr::zstr to keep references to strings alive
because for some reason everything goes to hell if you don’t. microseh is just as much a core component here, as
it’s a requirement to get the OS to play nice in the event of something going wrong and a structured exception being
thrown. This does mean that you, the consumer of this library, must ensure a clean exit and teardown upon
failure. No, a panic! does not suffice, ensure things get dropped and that the OS doesn’t unwind your ass.
Most of the interesting and relevant bits are located in the mmf module.